Re:AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok
by akomtu on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:10PM
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This is doing drugs, essentially. It so happens we have a dopamine production center attached to the reproduction behavior, and we've figured that mere thoughts about reproduction trigger a dopamine injection just as well. Wasn't there an experiment with mice where they kept pushing the button attached to a wire that made them release dopamine, and they kept pushing it until their dopamine production broke down, they lost interest in doing anything, and died?
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Re:AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok
by OfSanguineFire on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:41PM
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Addictive drugs are bad because they take over a person’s life. If the OP is using such porn only to scratch a sexual itch and then move on to some more productive activity, he is probably spending less time on this matter than if he were in a steady relationship with a woman.
Re:AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok
by ben_w on Sunday September 10, 2023 @04:12AM
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> Wasn't there an experiment with mice where they kept pushing the button attached to a wire that made them release dopamine, and they kept pushing it until their dopamine production broke down, they lost interest in doing anything, and died?
Yes, but morphine, and people later realised that the mice were essentially living in a murine version of hell; when they made the environment a "mouse hotel", they didn't get addicted.